Odontoscion xanthops
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Odontoscion xanthops is a kind from the family of the croakers (Sciaenidae) attached to the American Pacific -Küste from the Gulf of California to Peru occurs.
features
Odontoscion xanthops is a small fish of up to 30 cm in length with a slender, elongated, laterally flattened body. The animals are brownish with a silvery sheen and a metallic-bluish back. The dark centers of the scales form brown longitudinal stripes, which are straight below the sideline and curved upwards above in the rear area. There are 48 to 50 scales with pores on the sidelines. Young animals are silvery with a clear, brown central stripe and narrower stripes following the rows of scales. The eye is big. The snout is pointed, the mouth large with hanging corners and a slightly protruding lower jaw. The outer row of teeth of the upper jaw is slightly enlarged, in the lower jaw there are usually two enlarged canines in front. The edge of the preoperculum has no dentition. The gill trap has 21 to 23 thorns, 14 to 16 of them on the lower arm of the first arch.
The fins are darkening blackish towards the ends. The pectoral fin has 14 to 16 rays. The front part of the dorsal fin has 11 or twelve hard rays, the rear part has one hard and 25 to 27 soft rays. Of the two hard rays of the anal fin , the rear is the longest ray of the fin, followed by 8 or 9 soft rays. The softly irradiated parts of the dorsal and anal fin have a scaled border. The caudal fin ends straight or slightly rounded.
Way of life
The animals live in schools in shallow coastal areas over rocky reefs , but also penetrate the brackish water of estuaries. They eat crustaceans , small fish and zooplankton .
Web links
- Odontoscion xanthops on Fishbase.org (English)
- Odontoscion xanthops in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Chao, L., Espinosa, H. & Findley, L., 2007. Retrieved February 7, 2014.